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Not much different that the “high fence” deer hunting that is legal in Indiana-why develop skill when for a few thousand dollars you can bag the trophy of a lifetime (the deer’s) in a glorified cage. Nothing wrong with hunting for food, but the individual who goes on “canned” hunts must have a very poor sense of self-worth if that is what it takes to make them feel like a real man.

Makes you kind of nostalgic for the back room political wheeling and dealing. At least when the political bosses ran things you knew ahead of time your choices were incompetent or criminal. They are all still pretty much incompetent or criminal-they just prefer to let you find that out on your own. (Cynical? Me? nah.)

Yeah, but it also shows that everything is cyclical-Reagan’s Evil Empire of the 80s, the red scares of the 50s, every generation has their own particular boogeyman. The Donald seems to be vying for that honor this morning with his comments re: Hispanics and John McCain. Although in his case it may be a missing chromosome as Millie astutely points out.

A truly wise teacher would have simply said “Read three books this summer and summarize-grade depends on depth of content and analysis.” In high school, I read for pleasure books such as Krushchev Remembers, I Claudius (before it became a big hit), and lots of science fiction. When we had to read 1984 for lit class-I hated it although I had read it years before for pleasure-the fact that I had to read it took all of the joy out of it. I actually bargained with the teacher and got to substitute Brave New World instead as I hadn’t read that and really enjoyed it.

Hard telling if she has such a disgusted look on her face because no one was around to enjoy the moment or if she hit a sour note. Alternatively maybe she got the doggerel wrong-you know, the one where “Here I sit broken-hearted” specifically referring to the second stanza “Yesterday I took a chance….”

Quite frankly I see what people living in the Pacific North West put up with. Over 19 inches of rain her since June 1st-enough already. Took a steam train excursion today and I expect food prices will rise this year as many fields are still saturated and the crops look like garbage. Summer should be 80s and rain every two weeks, not 70s and rain every day.